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by pwagland 7y ago
For up to thirteen years apparently: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/spread_of_ages_of_lon... According to that, max age of a black cab is 15 years. On the plus side, given the age distribution shown, then about
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by pwagland 7y ago
Although legally you might be right, and I'm _sure_ that this is written somewhere in that 4 pages of small print that you didn't read. In practice, no-one is going to be aware of this, and because the "big tech" company
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by pwagland 7y ago
Even this is misleading, since in terms of TCO, the model 3 is _not_ a 50K car, it is much more comparable to a 35-45K car, depending on your own mileage. While the electronics are good, they are somewhat limited, no "birds eye view&qu
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by pwagland 7y ago
Probably more than a "few" I think that you will be looking at 5-7 for the cars to fall to under a third of new value. Although that depends on your definition of "a few"* I guess. * https://www.grammarphobia.
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by pwagland 7y ago
Note that at least part of the lower TCO is due to the fact that they expect the id.3 to retain 43% of value, and the normal golf to retain 33% of value. Setting these to equal eliminates any advantage, either way, the 5 year cost differenc
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by pwagland 7y ago
I like Tesla more than most, I have one myself… however you can't be suggesting that three factories will outproduce 50? That would be some massive gains in efficiency! It seems unlikely that the factories are currently operating at ab
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by pwagland 7y ago
There are also places in America, particularly the south, where macaroni cheese turns up on the vegetables list. I think that everyone kind of agrees that mac-n-cheese is a side, but not a vegetable.
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by pwagland 7y ago
Had you skipped your first sentence, which sounds like you are trying to blame millennials and their "entitlement problem", then you wouldn't get this reaction. Saying that you find this hard to understand, and "what cau
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by pwagland 7y ago
The difference is that you are not "hiring" the tree trimmer 5 days a week, 52 weeks of the year. They have many "employers", and so are independent of all of them. An Uber/Lyft driver does not have many "emplo
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by pwagland 7y ago
Interesting analogy. At least in the Netherlands, unless you have 3 or 4 contracts in a year, you are not really considered a contractor anyway, you are considered an employee. If you stay contracting more than 50% at a company for more tha
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by pwagland 7y ago
This is indeed what many people say. If you sit in in an i-Pace and a model 3, you wouldn't say that they are competition for each other any more than a Ford Focus is competition to a BMW 2-series, they are similar sizes, but very diff
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by pwagland 7y ago
14% loss in production over a day is more than "slightly inconvenienced".
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by pwagland 7y ago
The real problem is… who are "us" in this sentence? For a fairly intuitive UI, check out the Tesla, particularly in its latest incarnations. In my estimation it is at least as usable as most tablets, and very discoverable. However
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by pwagland 7y ago
To be fair, a builtin wardrobe is different to a walk-in wardrobe. The latter _tends_ to be builtin, the former tends be built into "the space between walls". I'm not 100% sure I would call them more space efficient, however
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by pwagland 7y ago
Note that this only keeps the first copy, not the most recent copy. To make it so that it only keeps the most recent, you would need to run this through `tac` twice.
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by pwagland 7y ago
The places where this is targeted for aren't close to a grid to be able to pump the power back into it. The benefit of this sort of system is that it gives you a way to consume electricity close to the source, so that you don't en
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by pwagland 7y ago
I like the idea of: > conserv[ing] sources of wasted energy without the need for invasive infrastructure (pipelines, power lines, etc). However, it isn't just a matter of dropping one of these skids onsite and leaving, since these s
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by pwagland 7y ago
Actually, I think that long haulers are going to be the ones that first suffer. When you need a human there anyway to sign/unload/etc, then having that human also be a driver isn't such a huge problem. With long-haul the only
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by pwagland 7y ago
Except that the whole thing is bunk… "overheat protection" is, by definition, ventilation. It is also not designed to protect children or animals, but simply to keep the car cooler. "Dog mode" keeps the car at the temper
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by pwagland 8y ago
In all seriousness though, how many people are really going to consider a t-shirt to be a family heirloom, that you _should_ pass down through the generations?
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by pwagland 8y ago
_Only_ if the existing community is _also_ the existing landowners. This is not always the case, often you have a large renting population. These renters only see there costs go up, not their assets.
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by pwagland 8y ago
Good question! My understanding is that a lot of the pollutants actually end up in the shell, so they don't magically disappear, but they are pulled out of the water, and they end up in the hard sediment on the sea floor.
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by pwagland 8y ago
There is a deliberate attempt to conflate the two, since they are essentially the same service, and many people want them regulated the same. There is a correspondingly deliberate attempt to ensure that the two remain separate in peoples mi
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by pwagland 8y ago
Except that the article you link to explicitly states two opposing theories as to why the salinity is so high, and has risen so much. The two competing theories seem to be 1. desalination and 2. climate change causing excessive evaporation.
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by pwagland 8y ago
Nope. There are four standards, although only three per market. And, in essence, there are two surviving standards per market. 1. Tesla US connector 2. Tesla Everywhere else connectors (CCS with a mod to allow DC charging over it) 3. CHAdeM
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by pwagland 8y ago
Having recently been in the market, to choose between these two, I don't believe that the Jaguar is clear-cut the better car. Disclosure, I chose the Tesla Model S! The Jaguar does have advantages. The Matrix headlamps are awesome, it
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by pwagland 8y ago
They'd die. But there would be no dissonance, since they would just say "no-one gets rabies anymore", so, in their eyes, the argument is a non-sequitur.
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by pwagland 8y ago
It depends very much on which country you are from. US/UK seem to have burial plots forever. Many European countries have a rental/lease system where you get the plot for 30-50 years, and that can be extended if wanted by the fami
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by pwagland 8y ago
Yes and No. The trick is that "as a whole" people change attitudes through life. In general, as you get more wealth, you become more conservative, as you get older, you generally end up with more wealth, so in general people becom
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by pwagland 8y ago
Correct.

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